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It’s colorful. It’s magical. It’s MYSTERIOUS. It will mesmerize your students for the whole class period. Eighth graders will swoon, and ninth graders might start out as skeptics (“Why can’t we just do this on a worksheet?”), but fear not! Before long, they will fall prey to the magic as well. And the best part? They are actually LEARNING. So, what is this magical tool, you might ask?

It’s the magic of a cube. Yep. A cube.

Just insert a QR code on each side, and presto! Like magic, you can turn any activity into an engaging learning quest. Furthermore, QR codes are an easy way to differentiate content, process, and product without making it obvious to your students that you are doing so. If this sounds magical to you, read on for some different ways to incorporate QR cube codes into…

My neglected blog that seemed to be an obstacle to my access to TECHNO CLILL blog is now my safety in this last step of my difficult adventure. It was a path full of interesting discoveries, but so tiring that more than once; I thought to stop my journey. I didn’t like to surrender after so much work, therefore I decided to keep hard and go on. What I had seen and discovered was too interesting to renounce. If I had to start the same journey, I wouldn’t travel alone as I did. A more frequent use of social networks would have helped.

I can’t really name my best discovery because it was all so interesting. I tried to do that, but I didn’t manage to find the space in an environment I couldn’t handle properly…The infographic, I mean. I found very instructive all the papers and articles and I plan to watch all the webinars I couldn’t follow live.

To celebrate the launch of Project fourth edition, Domino author, Nina Prentice explores the relevance of extensive reading in the upper primary classroom.

School is generally about hierarchies and rules. The teacher is the authority on and dispenser of the syllabus. Students are novices. Their purpose is to consume and learn the year’s programme of study and satisfy the requirements of the examination system.

But, if we believe that learning is not just about passing exams, our classrooms need not follow this pattern. We can break the traditional roles of ‘teacher’ and ‘student’ following our set tasks and duties quite easily. All we need is a library of graded readers and the enthusiasm and passion to read extensively alongside our class.

The transformation is astonishing. Discussion and debate become the norm. Students, even those who are less able or confident, participate enthusiastically because when people respond to personal reading…

These daring men and women have made the world a smaller place. Thanks to their guts and sweat, we know the Earth is round, life exists in the depth’s of the sea and that the view from space is spectacular. – Corey Binns

After five years of inactivity, thanks to the great stimulus of ICT4ELT course I’m attending, I’ve decided to retrieve this forgotten site that I opened in 2011. I set it after a train course at school, but I soon gave it up as I’ve never enjoyed showing off, exposing my thoughts to a public audience and I had no time to improve my poor technical competence.

For some days I’ve been asking to myself whether to give it a new life. Now, here I am. I have to redesign this space, even though my competences haven’t increased at all. In fact, at the time I learned some HTLM language, which I have completely forgotten.

To be honest, I must say that last two weeks I learned a lot of new things and a new world is opening to me. Though, as teachers we know that learning doesn’t mean competence… I want to be positive, that’s not always my mood, but I rely on the support of the wonderful team of educators of ICT4ELT2016 community.

What kind of blog is it going to be? At the moment I’m going to let it be a personal blog, but certainly I will have to transform it in an educational one if I want it to survive.